Retired Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn returns to put together the clues from his last unsolved case-- a mystery involving the disappearance of a priceless Navajo rug-- without the help of Jim Chee and Bernie Manuelito, who are on their honeymoon.
John Cotton is the perfect reporter, hearing and seeing it all, but never being noticed until he is caught in a nasty political cover up while searching for a colleague's murderer.